Zoom!
Getting inside his exotic car, Clark cruised out of the luxurious street filled with high-rise buildings while dialing his student’s number through his car’s communication system mechanism.
“The new location?”
“Ragen District…”
As soon as he got the new coordinates of their new underground base from his student, he did not waste time before steering his car in that direction.
In the Radan republic, there were hardly any amazing attractions that could distract him while on the road, so he didn’t even look sideways on the road as he sped directly to his new base.
Following the coordinates that Albert sent, Clark could not help but compliment in his mind that his student did a good job.
Compared to the previous underground base that he bought, this one was in a more deserted region. It was just behind a huge mechanical junkyard and rarely do people visit the junkyard because of the country’s situation.
Not only was the government oppressing and suppressing their soldiers, but they did this to the civilians too. It was rare to see a Radan citizen with amazing technical skills, the only exception was the children of the politicians.
The rule of implants being compulsory to every child clearly didn’t apply here also, seeing this only made Clark want to drill a bullet through the motherf*cking President’s head.
There was no defined route to the underground base, so he had no choice but to create a road with his car through the debris of scattered mechanical parts comprising of the junkyard.
Unlike the previous underground base where he had to park his car on a circle shape to slowly take it down through an elevator, this one directly had a sloped runway where he could drive under the ground.
As Albert already registered his car to the sensors of the underground base virtually, as soon as it detected his exotic car, the ground was divided into 2 parts with one of the parts forming a slope underground.
Clark felt his center of gravity change all of a sudden, disrupting his orientation of his surroundings. When he finally came to grips with what happened, he was underground already.
He was shocked, this underground building was far bigger than he expected it to be. He felt like he just drove into an underground city, he became suspicious, he felt like his mischievous student used his own will to do something bad again.
“Master, welcome!”
Albert stood in the middle of the new base with a knife in his left hand and a plate of pizza on his right. His mouth munched up and down repeatedly as he welcomed his master.
As soon as his car came to a stop, Clark jumped out of the car immediately. Still directing a suspicious look at the surroundings, he went closer to his student.
Without asking, he took the knife from his student’s hand, dipped it into the pizza, and took a large mouthful of it. As he chewed, he finally asked the ultimate question that was on his mind.
“How much did you pay for this underground base?”
“It's beautiful, right?” Albert smiled.
“That’s not what I asked, how much did you pay to buy it?”
“That, I paid only 21 million Radan credits”.
Pfft!
“What?”
…
After spanking his student for dozens of minutes, Clark finally felt appeased a little and stopped. Despite feeling a little appeased, he still felt pissed off by the amount of money that his student splurged on this mansion.
“Do you think I’m your billionaire dad? After exhausting your allowance, you now want to treat my money as your second allowance?”
“But you’re my master”.
Smack!
Clark hit him at the back of the head again. After taking a few more minutes to digest the pain of so much money going down the drain so easily, he finally stood up to admire the underground base.
Even though he kept on smacking Albert for splurging his money unnecessarily, he still had to admit that the underground base looked cool, secret agent-like, and badass.
Despite the badassism of the underground base, he still felt the pinch in his pocket. Perhaps, it was because he grew up lacking it, but he was always sensitive to spending money in ways he thought unnecessary.
A few minutes later, Albert was finally able to appease him completely with a well-prepared dish. Perhaps, he guessed what would happen when his master came back, but he even researched the internet just to make the food perfect.
After eating to his fill, Clark smiled at his student before plopping down on the sofa to rest his aching tummy.
“So, how was it, the negotiation?” Albert suddenly asked.
“It went well, even better than I imagined. If no sudden emergencies arise, we’ll probably engage in our first mission with them this coming week”.
Beep!
Inclining his head to take a look at his phone, Clark saw that it was Captain Drake who already sent the coordinates which fit the qualities that he listed for his special weapon test training.
He was surprised. “This is efficient”.
After carefully studying the coordinates that were sent to him, he sent an appreciation reply to the captain before standing up to examine his mech with his student in tow.
Though his stomach ached badly, he forced himself to continue walking.
Following Albert’s direction and walking a few meters forward through the enormous underground base, he finally came before his mech again. Well, the mech that he got from his in-law.
After a short but thorough examination of the mech and detecting no abnormalities or damages, Clark was impressed.
He turned to face his student. “How did you bring it here without being noticed by the police?”
Albert immediately propped his chest up a bit on hearing that. “It was like this…”
After listening to a long interesting but badly told story from his student, Clark finally had his freedom again. “Cover the mech, we’ll be taking a stroll to one of the most remote parts of this country”.
“You want to train with it?”
“Yes”.
Hiding the envy on his face, Albert obeyed and went closer to cover the mech with the electronic veil again. As he did this, Clark was startled by another notification from his phone.
Beep!
He inclined his head to see the message, and his brain froze immediately.
“Leo is in danger!”
[Thanks for reading.]